Summary

For liberal arts students, statistics may seem like a foreign language. By emphasizing concepts and statistical thinking over punching numbers into a calculator, and by focusing on real sources from campaign claims to scientific studies, Statistics: Concepts and Controversies helps students understand just how much statistical analysis has to say about their lives and the world around us. Now, this classic bestseller--the first to feature on David Moore's "data analysis" approach--returns in a thoroughly contemporary new edition, better equipped than ever to provide students with a solid understanding of statistical concepts, an eye for analyzing published data, and an appreciation of statistic's relevance to everyday life.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

To the Teacher: Statistics as a Liberal Discipline Prelude: Making Sense of Data

I. Producing Data 1. Where Do Data Come From? 2. Samples, Good and Bad 3. What Do Samples Tell Us? 4. Sample Surveys in the Real World 5. Experiments, Good and Bad 6. Experiments in the Real World 7. Data Ethics 8. Measuring 9. Do the Numbers Make Sense? Review I: Producing Data

IV. Inference 21. What is a Confidence Interval? 22. What is a Test of Significance? 23. Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference 24. Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test 25. Inference About a Population Means Part IV Review

Other Editions of Statistics - With Tables

For liberal arts students, statistics may seem like a foreign language. By emphasizing concepts and statistical thinking over punching numbers into a calculator, and by focusing on real sources from campaign claims to scientific studies, Statistics: Concepts and Controversies helps students understand just how much statistical analysis has to say about their lives and the world around us. Now, this classic bestseller--the first to feature on David Moore's "data analysis" approach--returns in a thoroughly contemporary new edition, better equipped than ever to provide students with a solid understanding of statistical concepts, an eye for analyzing published data, and an appreciation of statistic's relevance to everyday life.

To the Teacher: Statistics as a Liberal Discipline Prelude: Making Sense of Data

I. Producing Data 1. Where Do Data Come From? 2. Samples, Good and Bad 3. What Do Samples Tell Us? 4. Sample Surveys in the Real World 5. Experiments, Good and Bad 6. Experiments in the Real World 7. Data Ethics 8. Measuring 9. Do the Numbers Make Sense? Review I: Producing Data

IV. Inference 21. What is a Confidence Interval? 22. What is a Test of Significance? 23. Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference 24. Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test 25. Inference About a Population Means Part IV Review

Summary

For liberal arts students, statistics may seem like a foreign language. By emphasizing concepts and statistical thinking over punching numbers into a calculator, and by focusing on real sources from campaign claims to scientific studies, Statistics: Concepts and Controversies helps students understand just how much statistical analysis has to say about their lives and the world around us. Now, this classic bestseller--the first to feature on David Moore's "data analysis" approach--returns in a thoroughly contemporary new edition, better equipped than ever to provide students with a solid understanding of statistical concepts, an eye for analyzing published data, and an appreciation of statistic's relevance to everyday life.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

To the Teacher: Statistics as a Liberal Discipline Prelude: Making Sense of Data

I. Producing Data 1. Where Do Data Come From? 2. Samples, Good and Bad 3. What Do Samples Tell Us? 4. Sample Surveys in the Real World 5. Experiments, Good and Bad 6. Experiments in the Real World 7. Data Ethics 8. Measuring 9. Do the Numbers Make Sense? Review I: Producing Data

IV. Inference 21. What is a Confidence Interval? 22. What is a Test of Significance? 23. Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference 24. Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test 25. Inference About a Population Means Part IV Review